Bold: Use asterisks around a word to bold it. Or around your headline — which amounts to the first sentence of your post.Italics: Use underscores around the word/s you want to italicize.Strikeout: Run a line through a word or sentence (strikethrough) by putting hypens around that word or sentence.Bullets: If you want a list to stand out in a Google+ post, hit your space bar, enter a hypen, and then hit your space bar again. This is primitive, but it works.﻿

"I'm an early adopter of Google+, so I claimed authorship the 'old' way," said Gwen Morrison of Endurance Marketing. "Not that it was super painful, but with the release of the new feature 'author attribution,' Google+ just made it a whole lot easier for the articles you write to publish ...